Income Inequality

This is the second time Republicans have tried to ax the General Assistance program.

A new report from the United Way found that nearly two million households in Pennsylvania have a hard time paying for basic necessities like housing and food.

Hope & Door is a partnership between Berger Rental and One Step Away.

Philadelphia sends one-third of its trash to an incinerator in Chester deemed by researchers to be one of the dirtiest in the nation.

The Same Day Work program — developed by Mural Arts with the Scattergood Foundation and MHP, and funded by private philanthropy — is eight weeks into a two-year pilot.

The Equal Justice Center will be a one-stop-shop for low-income residents to get help from Philly’s civil legal aid community.

African-Americans are three times more likely to die from asthma as whites.

“Heard” features stories from people who’ve lived on the street.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Thursday the United States needs to find ways to address a decades-long slowdown in income growth and upward economic mobility.

Your parents are still the biggest indicator of how successful you'll become.

Theater companies are reaching out to lower-income patrons with alternative ticketing models.

The name Jim Kenney didn’t inspire much emotion around Fairhill and Strawberry Mansion. People are focused on worries that never seem to change no matter who's in City Hall.

Housing costs are growing for low-income renters but not higher-income renters and homeowners, worsening income inequality in the Philadelphia region and nationally.

The Massachusetts senator says the proposal unveiled Monday would eliminate almost all student loan debt for 42 million Americans.

Since 2010, Broad Street Ministry has served as a kind of post office for people experiencing homelessness. Those who comes in can claim the ministry’s address as their own.